Talk:Luxor

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Doesn't the last part of this read like a travel brochure?
 * Not any more. –Hajor 21:38, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

If I am not mistaken, Luxor is not yet a governorate, but it most certainly will be in the future. I am not 100%, Can you verify this? As if for me, I quote from the Official Tourism Egypt government website,"Luxor today is a city of some 150,000 people and is governed by special statues that allow it more autonomy then other political areas of Egypt." It has a status that allows it to be like a governorate, but it still is part of the Qena governorate in Egypt. User:Hobapotter —Preceding comment was added at 00:26, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Photo arrangement
Well, turns out I'm not very good at arranging photos. Someone please help me out. --Isewell 16:18, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Dunno. Looks OK to me. What didn't you like? –Hajor 21:38, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Looks better now. It looked cluttered before. Thanks. --Isewell 00:21, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Germanicus
Germanicus was not an emperor, he was adopted son of the emperor, and heir apparent; so more like a prince.

City of Palaces
Most websites I googled claim "Al-Uqsur" means "the city of palaces", obviously the "Al" stands for "the" and the romanization did not need the "L" in "Luxur", "uxur" was enough... Anyway, I cannot give an exact reliable reference for this, what shall be done? I had though the latin "luxus" which derived into "Luxury" and such words would be related but seemingly it comes from "luctari" which means "wrestle, strain." Nonetheless any historic cases of folk etymology follow this line of thought?Undead Herle King (talk) 03:34, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Image arrangement.
Firefox isn't rendering this page correctly, the same can be said for Google Chrome.

--Sean Cansdale (talk) 18:22, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Most of the images belong on linked pages such as Luxor Temple, Karnak, Luxor Museum, Felucca etc. The Ancient Thebes page has no images! So I am kicking most of them off except for some of the modern town.--Charles (talk) 19:36, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

changes needed
could do with some better maps, and maybe some maps of the city itself. Halowsmaster (talk) 20:45, 7 October 2009 (UTC) see also the talk page of the luxor mapHalowsmaster (talk) 20:51, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

History
The history section appears to stop in the Roman period. Especially given that we have a separate article on Thebes, shouldn't the history section at least give some information about the modern town? john k (talk) 14:55, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

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History section
The "History" section is basically repeating the history of Waset/Thebes, for which we have an own article. It does not contain any information on Luxor itself. Has it always been there since anquitity? Was it founded much later on top of old ruins? What was its role before becoming a tourist center? Has it been a center of Upper Egypt in Christian and Muslim times or was it more like a fishing village? Even the Arabic article does not help much. Does anyone know sources to fill this gap? Thank you. --Magadan ?!  12:00, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

santa
hi santa 94.173.123.8 (talk) 20:07, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Name
Hi thanks for your thanks. I wondered if you might be interested in helping figure out the full story to the name question. I believe that a few hundred years ago this was viewed as two places with modern Arabic place names (Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple), the modern settlement grew around Luxor Temple so was called Luxor, early modern scholars identified the whole place (which then had no modern name) as Thebes from Greek literature, and the settlement around Luxor Temple grew to encompass the whole area so gave its name to the wider area.

This all seems logical but I don't have a source which states it like this so cannot add into the article. Onceinawhile (talk) 17:05, 19 January 2022 (UTC)


 * That's my impression as well, but I don't think I have a source that states it explicitly, and I'm not sure where to look. The article on Karnak has a citation for the name that links to an Arabic-language source, but English sources rarely say much about local Egyptian history in modern times. A. Parrot (talk) 17:18, 19 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I will keep looking. 18th century sources seem to confirm it. An example is
 * Onceinawhile (talk) 18:15, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Main photo - AI generated?
The article's main photo of Luxor Temple (by Mahmoud algazzar) looks very inauthentic and has some heavy artifacts, as if generated or upscaled by an AI (although the year of upload would suggest otherwise). Even if that isn't the case, perhaps a clearer image could be used as the main one instead? 2001:1AE9:262:4400:E1EF:B881:2543:80EE (talk) 22:59, 24 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Since it was uploaded in 2015, I doubt it. But it looks like a filter was applied. Hypnôs (talk) 11:09, 25 May 2023 (UTC)